It's a Disaster (2013)

Waste of time

ridiculous rating

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

At times It's a Disaster is a bit hard to stay with, because essentially it is a film that focuses on the 'friends' who are together at one of their periodic 'couple's brunch'. While gossipy asides and barely concealed relationship tensions are present as normal, this particular brunch is marked out by some form of major attack on the US occurring as they sit to their meal. While responding to this is now on the agenda, what that means is different for each person, and of course the former business of the meal also still remains.Recently I watched the sci-fi film Coherence, where the drama is all played out more or less in one house on one night. This film takes a similar approach and, although there is not really any other connection between the two films, it is interesting to see how the same basic location and ensemble structure can be used to support two such very different films. In this case the focus is the black comedy of the situation and although it is never as smart or as funny as one would have liked, it is consistently amusing in its acerbic characters and extreme background. The writing is a bit broad and it is no real surprise when infidelities and other such secrets emerge from within the group, but mostly it has a solid degree of truth about it all. The downside of this is that the characters are not particularly likable, so while elements of them are recognizable and amusing to observe, there is a lot about them which grate – which is part of the satire, but also a side effect.The performances are mixed. Cross plays the straight man of the group really well and also allows a character for the viewer to follow, since he is new to the group; Stiles and Ferrera are also both reliable. For the others it was variable but not as memorable as these three. The writing is part of the limit on them, since it is broad across the group, with simpler characters rather than fleshed out ones. Filming around the one set of rooms is well done, and I liked the repeated external shot of the house – and that we never see more of the outside world than this. As a while, the film is too broad to really be brilliant, and it never skewers its characters as it should, or produces great laughs, or something deeper. It works for what it does, but I can understand the mixed response to it, because it is only okay rather than brilliant.

I watched this because of kosmasp's link with Coherence. Intriguing to find a shared internet interest, and I wondered if there was a Monty Python influence.But ... uuuh - I don't fink so.This is gentle comedy - a bit self conscious, a bit Jewish, although for some reason it plays out on a Christian apocalypse line.The story is slight, so the characters have to carry our interest - and they really don't deliver. The free-love couple are good (my sympathies), but overall the dialogue is awkward, the laughs are forced, and there's no serious take on life - let them all drink the kool aid. Who cares? But loving Beethoven's allegretto.

Eight friends meet for their monthly brunch. What starts as a pseudo therapy session and an airing of domestic grievances takes a sudden turn when the city falls victim to a mysterious attack. Trapped in the house and unsure of their fates, these seemingly normal people become increasingly unhinged........Its a bizarre film for sure, and to be fair, you wouldn't want to have brunch with any of these people, as they are a pretty abhorrent lot, but get past all this, and you have a little treat of a film, with some very good performances, and a funny script.The majority of the film is set in one house, and as the threat gets closer, patience wear all the more thin, and people start to reveal their true colours.Cross is the best thing about the film as he is the character who has the biggest change of personality in the film. Yes others change, but it's their attitude toward one another, and their desperation. Cross on the other hand is just plain bizarre.It's not a film for everyone, it took me a while to get over the smugness of the characters, but its unique, funny, and the final scene is pretty genius.

This is not an original film, the original one is Luis Buñuel "El Angel Exterminador" (Exterminationg Angel), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/reference .There is not a reference in the whole IMDb page that says is a remake or a adaptation from Buñuel Movie neither on the film, I am sure who ever has the rights from the Buñuel movie hasn't seen this film yet.. I really don't get why there are so many reviews of how good is this original movie, when this films is clearly not an original film.Now I really enjoyed this adaptation of one of the most interesting films I have ever seen by my hero Luis Buñuel.